Blah, I have all this shit to say, but it's really getting nowhere, so I'm just gonna spit out sources on shit.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201201 ... racy.shtml

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

http://creativecommons.org/about

http://kopimi.com/kopimi/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-copyright

http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/

There's a ton of information out there.

What I'm really driving at here is that you can't stop file sharing without infringing on the basic rights of the people. It is absolutely economically feasible to compete against piracy and make a lot of money. Many businesses do this today. Massive companies like the RIAA and MPAA instead choose to bully and harass their customers and lobby incredibly unjust legislation in order to secure an absolute stranglehold on the market and destroy the rights of the individual.

The reasonable solution is to reform copyright law and for businesses to use piracy to their advantage, not fight something and kill the internet.

As far as theft is concerned, if you wanna say that my piracy is stealing money from one of these companies, then sure, you can say that. I say their overconfidence in a demonstrably difficult to enforce law (that wasn't even designed to handle digital content in the first place) as a basis for their income is where the real culpability lies.